BALTIMORE – Four individuals and a product manager team from the Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors (PEO IEW&S) received 2015 Excellence in Federal Career Awards during a May 1 event sponsored by the Baltimore Federal Executive Board (FEB).
The purpose of the program is to honor outstanding federal employees, who have performed exceptional and meritorious work with high standards of performance in the Federal government. Bronze level awards from the FEB were awarded to John Masco, Kathleen Morgan and the Big Cyber Analytics Team (Col. Joyce Stewart, Anthony Taylor, and Stuart Labovitz), while Edwin Henry and Terence Humes were honored with silver level awards. This group was amongst the more than 300 Federal employee recipients throughout the greater Baltimore that were recognized.
“We are honored and pleased to see that the outstanding contributions made by the men and women of PEO IEW&S are consistently recognized by the FEB,” said Dr. Richard Wittstruck, (Acting) Deputy Program Executive Officer for IEW&S. “The special part that comes out of this ceremony is that it signifies the work our team here at APG has contributed to developing and fielding systems that have ultimately aided and protected Soldiers that serve in harm’s way.”
Masco, chief engineer for the Army’s Counter Remote Controlled IED Electronic Warfare (CREW) program, received a bronze award in the Outstanding Professional (non-supervisory) category. His impact ranges from a multifaceted set of tasks that includes ensuring the Army communications devices can operate in the presence of IED protection systems, and to oversee complex platform installation of the jammers, antennas and associated cables as well as development of counter measures to known and emerging threats. During the award period he supported the integration of CREW systems onto more than 50 different military vehicle models. Masco’s actions are paramount to ensuring that when Army vehicles go on a mission anywhere in the world, they are protected.
Morgan, Project Manager Sensors-Aerial Intelligence (PM SAI) Logistics Chief, earned a Bronze level award in the Distinguished Public Service category. She has spent 39 years in federal service culminating with her most recent role where she led and managed a team of more than 20 personnel providing leadership and guidance to the entire portfolio of systems within PM SAI, which includes six Programs of Record and 12 Quick Reaction Capability (QRC) systems. These aerial ISR systems support operations worldwide including locations such as Afghanistan, South America, Korea, Europe and others. She also managed a team of Field Service Representatives in these locations with more than 500 personnel at times.
The Big Cyber Team made up of Stewart, Taylor and Labovitz was recognized with a Bronze award in the Technical, Scientific & Program Support-Team category. The Cyber Big Data team was challenged to execute a six month pilot effort to integrate and demonstrate robust and resilient analytic capabilities in support of the Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER) critical operational needs. The team successfully worked with a number of disparate organizations to include the Army’s Intelligence & Security Command’s (INSCOM), the Defense Information Systems Agency, and the National Security Agency (NSA) to reduce critical operational gaps for Army Defensive Cyber Operations, Cyber Situation Awareness, and Cyber Analytics network defense in depth. The team worked to integrate DISA’s cyber situational awareness tools with components of INSCOM and NSA ‘s platforms for seamless defensive cyber operations at various echelons while also developing several cyber analytic tools to enhance cyber situation awareness and overall network security.
Henry, who served as the director for PEO lEW&S Afghanistan, received a silver level award in the Outstanding Professional Administrative, Management & Specialist category. During the award period Henry deployed to Afghanistan where he successfully mitigated 11 long standing deficiencies while managing more than 1600 personnel and 50 systems spread throughout 40 Forward Operating Bases in the Combined/Joint Operations Area. In total the equipment he was responsible for managing was in excess of $2 billion. Amongst the critical actions that took place during his deployment, Henry provided senior level support for the in theater fielding of Full Motion Video and Common Missile Warning Systems completing I00 percent fielding of requirements.
Humes, a program analyst for PM SAI, received a silver level award in Outstanding Para-Professional Administrative/Management Analyst category. He manages a yearly budget of more than $500 million direct and reimbursable funds and coordinates efforts with the Army Staff as well as other agencies such as Special Operations Command, Communications-Electronics Command, PEO IEW&S and PEO Aviation. During the award period he volunteered to deploy and serve as the PM Office liaison to Task Force Observe Detect Identify and Neutralize in Afghanistan which provides critical aerial ISR assets to support commanders in theater. This assignment requires that Humes coordinate efforts associated with the deployment, operations and sustainment of more than a dozen AISR aircraft and the associated staff of 200 contractor employees supporting this critical mission.